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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

A Hymnal's rebuttal...

I found this rebuttal to the reply Micah made to this post over at Drivetrain and thought it worthy of a post of its own...

A young, new Christian went to his local church usually, but one weekend attended a small town church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was.

"Well," said the young man, "It was good. They did something different, however. They sang hymns instead of regular songs."

"Hymns," said his wife, "What are those?" "Oh, they're okay. They're sort of like regular songs, only different," said the young man.

"Well, what's the difference?" asked his wife. The young man said, "Well it's like this - If I were to say to you, 'Martha, the cows are in the corn,' well that would be a regular song. If, on the other hand, I were to say to you:"Oh Martha, dear Martha, hear thou my cryInclinest thine ear to the words of my mouth.Turn thou thy whole wondrous ear by and byTo the righteous, inimitable, glorious truth.

For the way of the animals who can explainThere in their heads is no shadow of sense,Hearkenest they in God's sun or his rainUnless from the mild, tempting corn they are fenced.